Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Wukong becomes tougher to kill when surrounded by his enemies. Try to isolate him to gain an advantage.
Wukong will often use Decoy after Nimbus Strike. Try delaying your abilities by a short amount of time to ensure that you're hitting the real Wukong.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some strategic Hecarim against Wukong matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Wukong’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Wukong..
Hecarim normally has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Wukong. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Hecarim usually wins when facing off against Wukong, with a 51.1% win rate. Therefore, Hecarim makes a good counter to Wukong.
While Hecarim does have a higher win rate compared to Wukong, when facing one another, Hecarim also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Hecarim into Wukong.
Furthermore, Hecarim also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Wukong. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Wukong matchups, Hecarim is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Hecarim is a decent counter to Wukong. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Hecarim against Wukong.
If you would like to truly master Hecarim in order to counter Wukong during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim most often picks up less CS as Wukong. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Hecarim versus Wukong build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Spear of Shojin. When Hecarim incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Wukong than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Hecarim had an average win rate of 51.1% when countering Wukong with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Wukong as Hecarim, Hecarim players should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Hecarim vs Wukong face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.1% winrate overall.
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